PBS Masterpiece has revealed the US release date for its upcoming romantic Victorian-era period drama, The Forsytes . Inspired by Nobel prize-winning author John Galsworthy's Forsyte novels, The Forsytes is a story of ambition, betrayal, rivalry, desire, social hierarchy, romance, and wealth. It follows the titular stockbroking family as the next generation prepares to take over the Forsyte business and fortune.

This isn't simply another remake of Galsworthy's classic story, however. Whereas 2002's The Forsyte Saga , starring Damien Lewis and Gina McKee, was a straightforward adaptation of Galsworthy's family epic, Channel 5's and PBS Masterpiece's The Forsytes is set before the events of the source material, providing audiences with a new perspective on this powerful, complex

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